Is Venous Leak Possible?

[Greg1956]

No, I had a very obvious VL that was confirmed by a second test. According to my doctor your symptoms and responses all depend on where on your penis the leak is. It would be similar to having a small puncture at the top of a plastic water bottle and no water leaks out until the bottle is turned on it’s side. More than one doctor explained it that way. My leak was in the underside of my shaft so while erect and flat in my back it was able to hold blood. When I rolled over or got up it put pressure on the leak and blood flowed out.

[nick.young1888]

No, I had a very obvious VL that was confirmed by a second test. According to my doctor your symptoms and responses all depend on where on your penis the leak is. It would be similar to having a small puncture at the top of a plastic water bottle and no water leaks out until the bottle is turned on it’s side. More than one doctor explained it that way. My leak was in the underside of my shaft so while erect and flat in my back it was able to hold blood. When I rolled over or got up it put pressure on the leak and blood flowed out.

Did your doctors also explain the presence of morning wood? Did you only get wood when you were sleeping on your back?

[nick.young1888]

And also how hard is it to permanently cure a leak? Can’t they just surgically correct it? It doesn’t seem like a super advance thing to do scientifically speaking.

[Greg1956]

I could only get hard while on my back, but I did not have to be asleep. It was just as I mentioned before that was the only position when blood didn’t flow right back out of my dick.

[Greg1956]

If you study up on Venous Leaks, to my knowledge there are no reputable doctors who say they can surgically fix a venous leak. I was told the veins are so fine it is difficult to repair them with any accuracy. When a repair is attempted, it doesn’t stay fixed.

[nick.young1888]

I could only get hard while on my back, but I did not have to be asleep. It was just as I mentioned before that was the only position when blood didn’t flow right back out of my dick.

I'm so sorry for asking so many questions and i thank you so much for your patience and answers. I have a few more questions if you don't mind!

1. So basically, you would only get morning wood while sleeping on your back? If you slept on your stomach or slept on a couch in a sit up position you wouldn't have gotten an erection?

2. While on your back, how rigid would your erections be and how long did they last? 5 minutes or something?

3. Once your erection went down but you were still having sex would you get erect again or would your body only let you continue to have sex with a flaccid penis?

4. When you would sit down somewhere or while you were walking and you had arousing thoughts would you be able to get an erection?

I'm seeing less and less chance of me having VL but I just want to get tese questions out of the way so I don't have to go through these again. I sleep on my stomach mostly and when I am having trouble sleeping I do think of stuff that turns me on and I do feel an erection occuring. I masturbate mostly while on my back so I would obviously get an erection. Most of the time I have sex on my back when I first start off but even when on sit up on my kness on the bed my erection doesn't appear to go down. I am so turned on that it just stays like that. Also, for me, I can get morning wood on my back, my stomach, my side, sitting up, etc.

[Greg1956]

I'm so sorry for asking so many questions and i thank you so much for your patience and answers. I have a few more questions if you don't mind!

1. So basically, you would only get morning wood while sleeping on your back? If you slept on your stomach or slept on a couch in a sit up position you wouldn't have gotten an erection?

2. While on your back, how rigid would your erections be and how long did they last? 5 minutes or something?

3. Once your erection went down but you were still having sex would you get erect again or would your body only let you continue to have sex with a flaccid penis?

4. When you would sit down somewhere or while you were walking and you had arousing thoughts would you be able to get an erection?

I'm seeing less and less chance of me having VL but I just want to get tese questions out of the way so I don't have to go through these again. I sleep on my stomach mostly and when I am having trouble sleeping I do think of stuff that turns me on and I do feel an erection occuring. I masturbate mostly while on my back so I would obviously get an erection. Most of the time I have sex on my back when I first start off but even when on sit up on my kness on the bed my erection doesn't appear to go down. I am so turned on that it just stays like that. Also, for me, I can get morning wood on my back, my stomach, my side, sitting up, etc.

Nick,
First, no need to apologize for asking questions. When I first found this forum I had a bunch of questions and other guys were more than happy to answer them. Now that I have gotten the help
I need and am once again fully functioning and happy, it is my turn to give back.

After getting your last message I reread your original post. I am no doctor but can’t figure out how they can come to the conclusion your problem is in your head. If you are getting and keeping erections when getting oral from women and you haven’t had intercourse in seven months, you don’t know how that would go. If you are waking up with less morning wood, that wouldn’t appear to have anything to do with anxiety since you are asleep when those erections do or don’t occur. It seems like a strange diagnosis to me.

Second, you made a comment about not wanting chemicals injected in your dick. Why? It isn’t like they shoot Roundup or Lysol into you. It is simply a formula that has successfully been used for years by countless men to relax the veins so your penis can fill with blood. Why would you avoid a safe test that can give you a definitive answer on your issue so you can treat it one way or another? Would you rather go through life getting fewer erections and being frustrated not knowing why it is happening?

Here are my answers to your questions.

1. In my specific case yes I only was able to get morning wood while on my back. I could also get firm erections from masturbating or stimulation from my wife, but only on my back. If I was sitting or standing I might get a weak semi, but not full hardon.

2. My erections could last a long time if I remained still and in my back. I woke up with morning wood sometimes and just laid there for half and hour and stayed hard. As soon as I moved it was history. If I got hard from stimulation those erections probably were more in the 5-10 minute range at best.

3. For the last several years once I lost my erection I would remain flaccid and intercourse would come to a pretty abrupt end. Had my penis been longer at that time I may have been able to keep it in longer, but following Prostate Cancer and Prostatectomy surgery my penis retracted and was shorter.

4. I want to mention that my VL was gradual. I am not sure if that is always the case. Prior to developing the problem I could get hard very easily and quickly. That did not come to an abrupt end once I started having problems with ED. I could still get hard seeing someone I found sexually attractive. As the years went by that happened less and less. For the last few years prior to getting my implant I had the sensation of getting hard, so I still felt the reaction, but I did not get an erection.

If you have any further questions please feel free to ask. I am an open book.

[nick.young1888]

I'm so sorry for asking so many questions and i thank you so much for your patience and answers. I have a few more questions if you don't mind!

1. So basically, you would only get morning wood while sleeping on your back? If you slept on your stomach or slept on a couch in a sit up position you wouldn't have gotten an erection?

2. While on your back, how rigid would your erections be and how long did they last? 5 minutes or something?

3. Once your erection went down but you were still having sex would you get erect again or would your body only let you continue to have sex with a flaccid penis?

4. When you would sit down somewhere or while you were walking and you had arousing thoughts would you be able to get an erection?

I'm seeing less and less chance of me having VL but I just want to get tese questions out of the way so I don't have to go through these again. I sleep on my stomach mostly and when I am having trouble sleeping I do think of stuff that turns me on and I do feel an erection occuring. I masturbate mostly while on my back so I would obviously get an erection. Most of the time I have sex on my back when I first start off but even when on sit up on my kness on the bed my erection doesn't appear to go down. I am so turned on that it just stays like that. Also, for me, I can get morning wood on my back, my stomach, my side, sitting up, etc.

Nick,
First, no need to apologize for asking questions. When I first found this forum I had a bunch of questions and other guys were more than happy to answer them. Now that I have gotten the help
I need and am once again fully functioning and happy, it is my turn to give back.

After getting your last message I reread your original post. I am no doctor but can’t figure out how they can come to the conclusion your problem is in your head. If you are getting and keeping erections when getting oral from women and you haven’t had intercourse in seven months, you don’t know how that would go. If you are waking up with less morning wood, that wouldn’t appear to have anything to do with anxiety since you are asleep when those erections do or don’t occur. It seems like a strange diagnosis to me.

Second, you made a comment about not wanting chemicals injected in your dick. Why? It isn’t like they shoot Roundup or Lysol into you. It is simply a formula that has successfully been used for years by countless men to relax the veins so your penis can fill with blood. Why would you avoid a safe test that can give you a definitive answer on your issue so you can treat it one way or another? Would you rather go through life getting fewer erections and being frustrated not knowing why it is happening?

Here are my answers to your questions.

1. In my specific case yes I only was able to get morning wood while on my back. I could also get firm erections from masturbating or stimulation from my wife, but only on my back. If I was sitting or standing I might get a weak semi, but not full hardon.

2. My erections could last a long time if I remained still and in my back. I woke up with morning wood sometimes and just laid there for half and hour and stayed hard. As soon as I moved it was history. If I got hard from stimulation those erections probably were more in the 5-10 minute range at best.

3. For the last several years once I lost my erection I would remain flaccid and intercourse would come to a pretty abrupt end. Had my penis been longer at that time I may have been able to keep it in longer, but following Prostate Cancer and Prostatectomy surgery my penis retracted and was shorter.

4. I want to mention that my VL was gradual. I am not sure if that is always the case. Prior to developing the problem I could get hard very easily and quickly. That did not come to an abrupt end once I started having problems with ED. I could still get hard seeing someone I found sexually attractive. As the years went by that happened less and less. For the last few years prior to getting my implant I had the sensation of getting hard, so I still felt the reaction, but I did not get an erection.

If you have any further questions please feel free to ask. I am an open book.

I asked about 20 doctors and they all said as long as I get occasional morning wood that means that everything is working mechanically and that it isn’t a requirement to get morning wood every single day. These are urologists saying this by the way, not just family doctors.

Hmmm...i am still not convinced I have a leak. I get morning wood in all types of directions. Plus when I’m having sexual activity whether it’s oral or just making out I do get hard erections that don’t disappear until I ejaculate. Even if it isn’t intercourse, when I’m making out with a girl I have erection the whole time. If I wanted to pull out my dick and fuck her I feel like I won’t get flaccid. Also, while masturbating I do sometimes lose my erection if I take a break but I feel like that may be due to over thinking it. Even if it does get limp during masturbation all I have to do is jerk off some more and it will go back to hard and I finish with a hard on. I read most guys with a leak ejaculate with a limp one. I do lose my morning wood quicker now but literally I’ve been so stressed about my erections for the past 7 months that I feel like it may be due to anxiety.

The whole reason I even thought I had ED was because one day I was driving to work and my penis and groin felt numb. I couldn’t “pump” me penis or feel a sensation there. I was at work for 8 hours stressed as hell. I drive home in a panic because I already diagnosed myself with ED without even trying to get an erection. While driving home, my heart was pacing, thoughts were running through my head, i was stomping my feet out of frustration and pulling on my hair. I finally got home and tried to masturbate to see if everything was working but my penis was not getting erect. I put on porn and still couldn’t get an erecrion. I ended up just masturbating and cumming with a completely flaccid penis in less than 30 seconds. Looking back, I do believe that was due to severe anxiety (I even wanted to go to the hospital that day) but after that day I just always researched on erections, what could cause this at my age. I mean...I went to 20 doctors and they all said a venous leak is very unlikely...there is no organic cause. My erecrions are fat better than they were that first day that I freaked out but still not how they were before. Sometimes I feel like how I did before but I think I’m thinking about this so much that my psychological stressors are causing weak erections. And yes, apparently sever anxiety will effect morning wood too.

I did have phimosis my whole life and never knew it. I thought my penis was how a regular uncut penis was supposed to be like up until 7 months ago when I found out it was abnormal to not be able to retract the foreskin. I obviously was very sad and annoyed and thought about my penis a lot during that one week. I think that was where my penis anxiety started. I ended up being able to retract it thanks to using a cream but when I first retracted the first time my foreskin was still a little tight and during an erection I could only retract passed the glans and the skin would just be left wrapped around tight under my foreskin like a really tight rubber band. I nasturbated once with the tight foreskin pulled down around the penis. My erection problems literally occurred 3 days after. I highly doubt that would cause ED but it’s the only thing that makes sense. My doctors are saying that it isn’t possible for that to cause ED. So I think mine might be purely psychological.

[Greg1956]

Stress and poor diet are two things that cause erection problems. If your job is stressful that may be the root of your problem. When you first mentioned anxiety, I was thinking you meant sexual anxiety, but if it is stress related anxiety that makes more sense. Best wishes.

[nick.young1888]

Stress and poor diet are two things that cause erection problems. If your job is stressful that may be the root of your problem. When you first mentioned anxiety, I was thinking you meant sexual anxiety, but if it is stress related anxiety that makes more sense. Best wishes.

Trust me, it is not due to my job. I’ve had jobs kore stressful and never had a problem getting an erection up until now. Plus, I would dare to say 100% of people have a stressful job but that isn’t causing them erection issues.

I think my stress was due more to severe hypochondria. First, I realized I had phimosis which gave me anxiety for a week, then I had a sensation in my penis that convinced me I had ED. Maybe if I didn’t overreact with that one penile sensation everything would be back to normal but I am still questioning whether or not I have ED 24/7. I was progressing with my anxiety but then when I made this thread and those 2 users confirmed that venous leak ppl still get morning wood it made me very stressed again to the point where I called a urologist today and am willing to pay $150 for a consultation and whatever the amount of the ultrasound is with my own money just because I am so nervous and stressed and need reassurance.